Ondo police debunk alleged bandits’ operation in Akure Airport

The Ondo State Police Command has refuted reports purporting that immoderate bandits were apprehended astatine the Akure Airport.

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria had, connected Sunday, announced that 4 suspected bandits were apprehended wrong the vicinity of the airport.

Reports connected societal media besides alleged that the bandits were arrested astatine the airport, triggering fear.

But the Ondo State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, described the study arsenic misleading.

According to the PPRO, nary specified incidental occurred astatine the Akure Airport, stressing that determination was nary information breach of immoderate benignant astatine the facility.

The Command, however, said it “received credible quality from a acrophobic national regarding the activities of suspected kidnappers astir the Eleyewo axis of Akure. Acting swiftly connected the tip-off, operatives of the Command launched a targeted cognition successful the area, which led to the apprehension of 2 suspects.

“Preliminary probe reveals that the suspects are Kidnap Logistics Suppliers aiding kidnap activities wrong the state. They person since made utile confessional statements that are presently aiding ongoing investigations and efforts to apprehend different members of the transgression network.

“The Ondo State Police Command, therefore, u...